Best of 2012: Daytime In The Year Of The Soap

Today is the final day of 2012, The Year of the Soap, and in the world of Daytime things were on the upswing (for the most part). For our "Best of 2012" list we tried to focus on the positives but there was definitely some room for improvement in certain areas we just had to point out. Check it out below and share your own "Bests" in the Comments section below.

22 comments:

DISAGREE with you about best triangle being Hope/Liam/Steffy on B&B! I, along with everyone else (just look at the message boards on CBS.com and everywhere else) absolutely HATES this neverending triangle and wishes it would just GO AWAY!!!! The best triangle for me in 2012 IMHO was Jason/Sam/John on GH!

Agree with B&B, Best Soap. I don't watch GH, but I agree it has Best Writing. Ditto for worst triangle. Also, Jennifer/Days is super annoying. I loved Stephanie's Goodbye SL. Glad to see it's Best Story. Very deserving. Y&R needs to step it up. The show is so dang boring, I find myself looking forward to the ads (and that is a shame!) Good job on Best of 2012. Happy New Year, everyone!!!

Well said, Chris... Hope/Liam/Steffy was a horrid triangle. While I have no individual disdain for any of those characters, I couldn't help but to hope that any one of them would be killed off so the dreadful triangle could end.

Thanks for a completely unbiased and balanced set of year end best & worst. I have seen several of these and yours is the first to not be some love shout out to a writer, producer or some actor/actress. Thanks for that. One particular reporter I used to have respect for until I read an interview and his best/worst and nearly became a diabetic from all the sugar he poured over his 2 idols heads. I don't agree with all of your choices but it is still the best put together list of all of them out there. Thanks for keeping it real.

I am pleasantly surprised that B&B was named Best Soap and I happen to agree!

I disagree with several of the choices here but naming Redaric Williams (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) as the Sexiest Man in Daytime Soaps is THE RIGHTEST THING I HAVE READ ON THE INTERNET! LOL. This man is the sexiest man in all of TV (giving Josh Henderson & Jesse Metcalfe on DALLAS a real run for their money!)

I LOVE Sonny and Will. I just wish their chemistry out of bed was as good as their chemistry in bed! Maybe 2013 will be their year and it'll all click to make them a true supercouple! Here's hoping 2013 will be a great year for soaps!!!

Redaric Williams' as Tyler in the sauna scene, made me go deaf because my mind could not compute all of the magnificence. Luckily, my eyesight sharpened in the same moment! I still suffer from the vapors from that scene.

I like the new additions to Y&R's cast. The newcomers all seem talented and extremely attractive. I like the young man who plays Jamie and the bullying story but I would have chosen either Haley King (Summer) or Robert Adamson (Noah) as Best Newcomer. I know some are still not happy with Y&R, but it has improved under Josh Griffith's pen. I think Y&R should be a slow-moving soap with tons of character development. GH is excelling at plot-driven story and it suits the show.

On a separate-note: After a day of cooking/hosting, I am planning on relaxing tonight with my Guiding Light DVDs, courtesy of SoapClassics and the Roger's tireless effort. I am so happy these discs were made available.

Y&R may be the soap with the "most dropped SLs of the year" (possibly of any year!) If the new HW had not dropped SLs that were better than the current and showed promised, I'd less less unhappy. Paul's SL deserved to be finished w/o rushing and never revealing who was behind taking the evidence that would have freed him. This was only one of the SLs dropped w/o a decent wrap up. If a new HW can do this amount of dropping, he should be able to do better SLs and wow us (and the ratings) without breaking a sweat (unless he's a hunk like Redaric!) JMHO

As a longtime DAYS fan I have to agree that Jennifer Horton is the most annoying character. I've gotten to the point where I FFWD over all her scenes because her whining and weeping are so monotonous. Though I do love it when that curly-haired dayplayer at the hospital is mean to her. Daniel with Nicole was HOT. Daniel with Jen is just NOT.